Carmontelle's Landscape Transparencies
Subtitle: Cinema of the Enlightement (Getty Trust Publications, J. Paul Getty Museum)
Publisher: Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum; J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: December 7, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780892369096
Subjects: Art treatments & subjects; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Europe; European; Individual Artist; Art / History / European
Description: "Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle, was an eighteenth-century French painter, art critic, garden designer, and man of the theater. In 1783 he began painting a series of panoramic landscapes on translucent paper that became a popular source of entertainment at French royal court gatherings. These rolled-up transparencies (rouleaux transparents) were cranked through a backlit viewing box while Camontelle told stories about what was happening in the scenes." "The author of this book re-creates the original viewing experience of the guests by taking the reader on a virtual stroll through a series of these painted landscapes and, in the process, offers a lively analysis of social live in France during the late 1700s. The book presents all of Carmontelle's extant transparencies, some of which survive only in fragments, and a number of which have never before been published."--Jacket.